Ghana is a popular destination for Chinese migrants.
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Opportunities for social mobility, rather than simply economic incentives, have generated emigration from China to countries like Ghana.
Some of the ancient manuscripts Jihadists burnt in Timbuktu in 2013 during civil conflict in Mali.
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Protecting the continent’s historical artefacts requires political will from governments – and a reawakening of cultural conscience among Africans.
A farm in South Africa’s Eastern Cape struggles with woody encroachment.
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Maintaining ecological balance in savannas is essential
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Many of Africa’s forests are unknown to the public at large, yet so fascinating and important.
Mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous in Africa.
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To date, the program has provided nearly $10 million to roughly 137,000 of the country’s poorest citizens.
Russian president Vladimir Putin and African leaders at the 2019 Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum in Sochi in 2019.
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Russia is attempting to export its governance model of an authoritarian, kleptocratic and transactional regime onto Africa.
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, speaks during a special session of the General Assembly on March 02, 2022.
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The resolution is not legally binding, but is an expression of the views of the UN membership.
African forest elephants.
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This was the first national DNA-based assessment of any free-ranging large mammal in Africa.
Kwame Nkrumah’s vision still resonates with Ghanaians.
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Nkrumah’s rhetorical vision used the politics of the crowd to build a postcolonial community outside of the conscripts of colonialism.
African Union and European Union flags the AU-EU Summit in Belgium.
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African participants have decided to press the reset button and begun to act as equal partners – but more can be done to improve the summit process.
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Social media platforms can be put to great use when it comes to promoting sexual health. But invoking threats and fear limits information reach and impact.
Loading packed fertilisers at Russia’s PhosAgro Group in the town of Pochep.
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The ultimate crop yields that farmers harvest depends on the use of fertilisers.
Winter wheat being harvested in the fields of the Tersky Konny Zavod collective farm in the North Caucuses.
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Every agricultural role-player is keeping an eye on the developments in the Black Sea region.
Women workers sow children’s underwear at a textile factory in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
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Chinese private investments in Ethiopia are highly diverse, fluid and complex.
Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba is sworn in as head of state in Burkina Faso on February 16 after the January military coup.
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A man with the Malian National flag joins a demonstration in Bamako after the military junta called for protests against sanctions imposed over delayed elections.
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Unimpressive democratic conditions and foreign influence in African countries make recent attempted and successful military takeovers unsurprising.
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A new study reveals the major players and routes involved.
A member of the Yansakai vigilante group poses with a gun in Zamfara State, northwest Nigeria.
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Aside from human rights abuses, vigilantes may be unreliable, poorly skilled, and lacking transparency and accountability.
After South African scientists sounded the alarm about the new omicron variant, countries around the world closed their borders.
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English Quakers on a Barbados plantation.
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Eighteenth-century Quakers attempted to align their religious beliefs with what they purchased. These Quakers led some of the early campaigns against sugar being produced by enslaved people.